The Three Musketeers is a musical with a book by William Anthony McGuire, lyrics by Clifford Grey and P. G. Wodehouse, and music by Rudolf Friml.

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His father John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley was a leading Liberal statesman in the government of William Ewart Gladstone and the family were noted landowners in Norfolk.

White, William Carlos Williams and P. G. Wodehouse.

Performing Flea is a non-fiction book, consisting of a series of letters written by P. G. Wodehouse to William Townend, a friend of Wodehouse since their schooldays together at Dulwich College.

** ( 1931 ) How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, New York: Horace Liveright, Inc. Introduction by P. G. Wodehouse.

Grossmith then partnered with George Edwardes's former associate, Pat Malone, to produce a series of mostly adaptations of imported shows at the Winter Garden between 1920 and 1926: Sally ( 1921 ), The Cabaret Girl ( 1922, with book by Wodehouse and music by Jerome Kern, The Beauty Prize ( 1923, with Wodehouse and Kern ), a revival of Tonight's the Night ( 1923 ), Primrose ( 1924, with music by George Gershwin ), Tell Me More ( 1925, with words by Thompson and music by George Gershwin ) and Kid Boots ( 1926 with music by Harry Tierney ), many of them featuring Leslie Henson.

" By the Way " was originally a column in the Globe, consisting of unsigned humorous pieces ; P. G. Wodehouse was assistant editor of the column from August 1903 and editor from August 1904 to May 1909, during which time he was assisted by Herbert Westbrook.

And now the proclamation of Pretorius was followed by protests on the part of the British high commissioner, Sir Philip Edmond Wodehouse, as well as on the part of the consul-general for Portugal in South Africa.

Wodehouse was hailed by The Times as a " comic genius recognized in his lifetime as a classic and an old master of farce " for his own ingenious wordplay.

*" David's life was Wodehouse with tears.

Lynne Truss stated that " Samuel Beckett spliced his way merrily through such novels as Molloy and Malone Dies, thumbing his nose at the semicolon all the way ," " James Joyce preferred the colon, as more authentically classical ; P. G. Wodehouse did an effortlessly marvellous job without it ; George Orwell tried to avoid the semicolon completely in Coming up for Air, ( 1939 )," " Martin Amis included just one semicolon in Money ( 1984 )," and " Umberto Eco was congratulated by an academic reader for using no semicolons in The Name of the Rose ( 1983 ).

Papers released by the Public Record Office have disclosed that when Wodehouse was recommended for a Companion of Honour in 1967, Sir Patrick Dean, British ambassador in Washington, argued that it " would also give currency to a Bertie Wooster image of the British character, which we are doing our best to eradicate ".

Wodehouse, who wrote " I wouldn't say he was disgruntled, but

As with other writers he had read while at St Cyprian's Prep school ,-Kipling, Wodehouse, Swift, Shaw, Thackeray-his loyalty, " was virtually unwavering.

Other projects followed, of which one was their BBC sketch comedy series A Bit of Fry & Laurie ; another project was Jeeves and Wooster, an adaptation of P. G. Wodehouse ’ s stories, in which Laurie played Jeeves ’ s employer, the amiable twit Bertie Wooster.

In later years, he was heard on BBC radio as Galahad Threepwood, another Wodehouse creation.

This was the house in which P. G. Wodehouse once boarded prior to it becoming a junior house.

Attempts at accommodation made by the governor of Cape Colony ( Sir Philip Wodehouse ) failed, and war between the Free State and Moshoeshoe was renewed in 1865.

An Index edited by Mrs. Edmund Wodehouse was issued as a separate volume in 1890.

His father Vincent Wodehouse Yorke, the son of John Reginald Yorke and Sophia Matilda de Tuyll de Serooskerken, was a wealthy landowner and industrialist in Birmingham.

Though he was prepared to dislike Wodehouse, the interview became the start of a lifelong friendship and publishing relationship.

John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley KG, PC ( 7 January 1826 – 8 April 1902 ), known as the Lord Wodehouse from 1846 to 1866, was a British Liberal politician.

Armine Wodehouse, was also a Liberal politician but died at an early age.

Published in 2003, the novel was awarded the Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman Prize for Comic Fiction and the Man Booker Prize for Fiction which included the £ 50, 000 prize.

The region was named after John Wodehouse, 1st Earl of Kimberley who served as Secretary of State for the Colonies from 1870 to 1874 and 1880 to 1882.

Wodehouse said of Flashman, " If ever there was a time when I felt that ' watcher-of-the-skies-when-a-new-planet ' stuff, it was when I read the first Flashman.

Bring on the Girls, ( originally published 1954 ) reprinted in Wodehouse on Wodehouse, Hutchinson, London, 1980.

P. G. Wodehouse devoted several paragraphs of Something New to the restaurant, and in his novel Psmith in the City, his two heroes dine there: " Psmith waited for Mike while he changed, and carried him off in a cab to Simpson's, a restaurant which, as he justly observed, offered two great advantages, namely, that you need not dress, and, secondly, that you paid your half-crown, and were then at liberty to eat till you were helpless, if you felt so disposed, without extra charge.

All the stories in the collection feature recurring Wodehouse characters and themes: four Drones Club members ( two Freddie Widgeon and two Bingo Little ), two golf stories ( one with the Oldest Member and one without ), two Mr Mulliner, one Jeeves and Bertie Wooster, and one Ukridge.

" On Sunday we jellygraph it ", writes Wodehouse without explanation.

He collaborated with many of the leading librettists and lyricists of his era, including George Grossmith Jr., Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Dorothy Fields, Johnny Mercer, Ira Gershwin and E. Y. Harburg.

" which comically mixes elements of Wodehouse with H. P.

* The Wodehouse, a country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable for its connections with British musical history

Bingley Teacher Training College opened in 1911 with Helen Wodehouse as principal.

Wodehouse, Dr. Simon Sparrow in BBC Radio 4's adaptions of Richard Gordon's Doctor in the House and Doctor At Large ( 1968 ) ( currently repeated on BBC Radio 4 Extra ), a retired thespian in a series of six plays with Stanley Baxter Two Pipe Problems, and later the play Not Talking, commissioned for BBC Radio 3 by Mike Bartlett.

* The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters

Wodehouse adapted the story from a play, Come On, Jeeves, that he had written with his lifelong friend and collaborator Guy Bolton.

* The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters

* The Wodehouse, an English country house near Wombourne, Staffordshire, notable for its connections with British musical history

Over the next few years the fiction content grew smaller ( though still with the occasional short-story writer of stature, such as P. G. Wodehouse ), and the " men's magazine " material expanded.

Wodehouse frequently named his characters after places with which he was familiar, and Lord Emsworth takes his name from the Hampshire town of Emsworth, where Wodehouse spent some time in the 1890s ; he first went there in 1903, at the invitation of his friend Herbert Westbrook, and later took a lease on a house there called " Threepwood Cottage ", which name he used as Lord Emsworth's family name.

* A Wodehouse biography, with details of his time at the real Emsworth

* The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters

* The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with a list of characters and publication dates

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography also compares his verse with that of W. S. Gilbert and suggests that his prose was an early influence on P. G. Wodehouse.

* The Russian Wodehouse Society's page, with photos of book covers and a full list of characters

In November 1926, she became the first British performer to star in an American musical on Broadway when she opened in Oh, Kay !, with music by George Gershwin, lyrics by Ira Gershwin, and a book by Guy Bolton and P. G. Wodehouse.

Wodehouse novel " The Inimitable Jeeves " Bertie Wooster states that his cousins " looked at each other, like those chappies in the poem, with a wild surmise.

Bolton preferred working in collaboration with others, principally the English writers P. G. Wodehouse and Fred Thompson, with whom he wrote 21 and 14 shows respectively, and the American playwright George Middleton, with whom he wrote ten shows.